Planning Approval Rate in Erewash
Erewash is somewhat more approving than the England average for planning permission: it approves 94.1% of applications and decides 84.3% of them within the statutory time limit, ranking #42 of 310 English authorities. This is the approval-rate record for Erewash: how hard it is to get planning permission, how quickly the council decides, and how it compares with its neighbours, from official government statistics.
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Source: official MHCLG planning statistics (PS2), 1 January 2025 to 31 December 2025. Based on 389 decisions (366 granted, 23 refused).
How Erewash compares
| Erewash | 94.1% |
| East Midlands average | 89.8% |
| England average | 87% |
Erewash is 7.1 points easier than the England average.
How hard is it to get planning permission in Erewash?
Erewash is in the more approving third of English authorities, granting 94.1% of the applications it decides (rank 42nd of 310). That puts it somewhat more approving than the England average — 94.1% approved against an England average of 87%. Within East Midlands it is the 8th most approving of 35 local planning authorities, where the regional average is 89.8%. Refusals are uncommon here: 23 of its 389 decisions were refusals (5.9%). On the split by scale it is somewhat more lenient on major schemes than on small ones: 100% of major developments approved versus 95.4% of householder and other small-scale work, from 8 major decisions.
On timing it is among the slower authorities, deciding 84.3% of applications within the statutory period against 90.6% nationally. Its figures rest on a relatively light caseload of 389 decisions over 1 January 2025 to 31 December 2025, where the typical English authority decides around 783. Among its East Midlands neighbours it sits between North West Leicestershire (94.3%, more approving) and South Derbyshire (93.8%, stricter). For context in East Midlands, North Kesteven approves the most (97.2%) and Oadby and Wigston the least (71.7%).
Compare Erewash with nearby councils
Approval rates for other authorities in East Midlands. See the full East Midlands league table.
Approval rate by development scale in Erewash
Live planning activity in Erewash Borough Council
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What people apply for in Erewash Borough Council
Where planning activity concentrates in Erewash Borough Council
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Planning permission in Erewash: common questions
Is it hard to get planning permission in Erewash?
On the latest official figures Erewash is somewhat more approving than the England average and in the more approving third of English authorities, approving 94.1% of the 389 applications it decided over 1 January 2025 to 31 December 2025 against 87% for England.
What percentage of planning applications does Erewash approve or refuse?
Refusals are uncommon here: 94.1% approved and 5.9% refused — 366 granted and 23 refused of 389 decisions, with major schemes approved at 100% and householder and other work at 95.4%.
How quickly does Erewash decide planning applications?
On timing Erewash is among the slower authorities: 84.3% of applications were decided within the statutory period — eight weeks for most, thirteen for major schemes — against 90.6% nationally.
Is Erewash stricter than nearby councils?
Erewash's 94.1% approval rate makes it the 8th most approving of 35 authorities in East Midlands, against a 89.8% regional average. Neighbouring North West Leicestershire approves 94.3% and South Derbyshire 93.8%.
Can I use Erewash's approval rate to predict whether my application will be approved?
No — the approval rate is a historic average across every application Erewash decided, not a prediction for any individual application; your outcome depends on the site, the proposal, local planning policy and any objections.
Methodology & limits
Approval, refusal and in-time rates come from the government's official PS2 planning application statistics (Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government), covering 1 January 2025 to 31 December 2025. This dataset is England-only and published annually, so it lags live activity. Live figures are the applications PlanWatch has collected for Erewash Borough Council and are not a complete council register. Refusal reasons and delegated-vs-committee splits are not published in this data.
This is a historic average, not a prediction. It cannot tell you whether your application will be approved — that depends on your site, proposal, local policy and any objections.
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